Research Articles: All posts tagged 'gomorrah'

In January 2009, we will be back in the field for our fourth season of excavating at Tall el-Hammam, Jordan. Situated seven miles north of the Dead and nine miles east of the Jordan River, it is the largest site in the southern Jordan River Valley...

The ruins of Sodom and Gomorrah have been discovered southeast of the Dead Sea. The modern names are Bab edh-Dhra, thought to be Sodom, and Numeira, thought to be Gomorrah. Both places were destroyed at the same time by an enormous conflagration...

When the archaeological, geographical and epigraphic evidence is reviewed in detail, it is clear that the infamous cities of Sodom and Gomorrah have now been found. What is more, this evidence demonstrates that the Bible provides an accurate eyewitness account of events that occurred southeast of the Dead Sea over 4,000 years ago...